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Post by REDEFINE Pro on May 18, 2014 16:25:19 GMT
Welcome to Chicago Match: Ryan Kidd (Debut) vs Gabriel Blade (Debut)
Ryan Kidd is a former PWX Evolution Champion, Gabriel Blade is looking to bring wrestling back to its roots. These two rising stars will make their 2CW debuts in a very aptly named "Welcome To Chicago" Match. In a land where wins and losses matter-who will succeed in their debut outting in the Second City? Will Blade show the world why hes the best pure wrestler out there, or will the Fierce and the Fearless come out on top.
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Jay
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Post by Jay on May 29, 2014 23:18:33 GMT
The Kidd Khronicles May 28, 2014 When the curtain falls, will it fall without warning? Or when the light goes out, will anybody be around? I’ve seen the tide take everyone I know. It makes my heart break… is it time to just let it?
Maybe it’s time to move on? Maybe we’ve taken this as far is it’ll go? No… Not throwing in the towel, Push a little further for now. I’m in the fight of my life, Protecting something that I can’t deny
Protecting something that I won’t give up, Fighting for something that I truly love. I’m not afraid of losing popularity, But I’m scared to death of losing something that’s a part of me. Something that I’ll always be, Something that I feel inside, Something I’ve been my whole life.
Maybe it’s time to move on? Maybe it’s time to let go? A constant fear that I can’t hide, I’m in the fight of my life.
I’m in the fight of my life, A growing fear that I can’t hide, How can this be wrong when it’s the only thing that feels right?
I’m in the fight of my life, Laying down my pride, No longer afraid of how I feel inside… I’m fighting for my life… of my life… I’m in the fight of my life.
That is the lyrics for my current entrance music “Fight For My Life” by No Bragging Rights. I chose that song to accompany to the ring because I feel that that song represents where I am right now in my wrestling career.
See when I broke out in 2012, I skyrocketed to the top of the pro wrestling mountain quickly. I achieved things that most of the people in our sport take years to achieve. I won the UWL International Title, the PWX Hybrid title and the UWL World Championship within my rookie year in pro wrestling. I was performing in some of the top promotions and getting in the ring with some of the best that our sport has to offer.
I have made a lot of friends, gained some of the best fans in the world and at the same time, made a lot of enemies due to the fact that in their minds, I am greenhorn that should not be getting what I have obtained. Those are the people who feel that I have not proven myself despite the fact that I am beating everyone that promoters throw at me and putting on some of the best matches this sport has ever seen.
And just like any 22 year olds out there who gained fame and fortune at that age, I have let it go through my head. I am not proud of it but at least I am brave enough to admit that yes I did let all those success changed me. And that’s when I think karma decided to rear its ugly head and laid down the hammer on me. Because as fast as I have risen to the pro wrestling ranks, that’s how fast I came crashing back down to Earth.
The last few months have been a struggle. I did not have a good year in 2013 and 2014 started off the wrong way. I guess you can say that I have been “exposed” and that my inexperience has finally decided to show itself and that’s when things got really tough. Suddenly, I can’t win anything and all my personal demons had caught up to me. So that’s when I decided to take some time off. I got my butt off the road and went home to Southern California and spent time with my family and rekindled the friendship that I’ve burnt and neglected during that year I was wrestling all the fucking time.
And I have to say that the break worked. A couple of weeks ago, I started getting the urge to get back in the ring again. I logged in to my twitter for the first time in months just to see what’s going on in the world of pro wrestling. Read tweets from some of my closes friends in the sport. Within one day, I found myself booking a flight to Chicago to attend a Second City Wrestling show through an invitation by my friend Rommie Sharpe.
So I got on a plane to Chicago, went backstage at the Second City Wrestling show and ran into my old boss Jason Parker Olesen. I worked for JPO in Pro Wrestling X and I did not have the slightest clue that he owns Second City Wrestling. In hindsight, I should’ve known since 2CW employs some of the PWX wrestlers and their current Heavyweight champion is JPO’s brother and wrestling legend John Pariah.
Anyways, JPO invited me to a closed door meeting in his office a couple of hours before the show started. We talked and asked me about my goals and my plans if ever I’m given a chance to wrestle again and I answered him as honestly as I could. I think it was safe to say that he liked what he heard because he offered me right then and there. I got on the microphone that night during the show and just like that, my pro wrestling return is up and going.
So here I am now. I find myself in front of my computer typing this blog post. As I just tweeted, recounting these events that lead me to my “Welcome To Chicago” match against Gabriel Blade this Saturday at 2CW’s Redefine event is just mind-boggling and makes me feel like I am the most blessed man in the world. Despite having my fucked ups and letting all my initial success get in my head and almost burning every bridge I have personally and professionally, I have been given a second chance to do what I love to do.
With that said, I want to shift my focus on the task at hand. As I’ve mentioned earlier, I am facing Gabriel Blade this Saturday at 2CW Redefine in a “Welcome To Chicago” match. Now I really don’t know Gabriel Blade and I don’t know what he has done in our sport. I have seen a couple of tapes from him and from what I’ve seen, I have my work cut out for me. The guy is a great mat technician. Probably one of the best in our sport. He came from a pedigree of professional wrestlers and that alone would give him an advantage over me.
But as everyone who knows and followed me throughout the years that I have the biggest heart in this sport. And not to toot my own horn or whatever but when people thinks of Ryan Kidd, they think of the never-say-die attitude, the resiliency that is unmatched by anyone in this sport. And on Saturday night, Gabriel Blade will get to see that first hand. Yes, he will be able to slam me down on the mat, out-wrestle me, lock me in whatever hold he wants to but if there’s one thing that he will not be able to do and that is to keep Ryan Kidd down. He can try all he wants but every time he tries to keep me down, I will just keep on getting back up. I have made a living in doing just that as well as going toe to toe with some of the best in our sport and this match will not be any different.
But I’m wondering though if Gabriel Blade will be able to match up with the fire, the passion and determination that I bring in every fucking matches I’m in. I wonder if Gabriel Blade has that same determination, that same passion and that same fire that I have inside. I wonder if he could ever hold me back and keep me from pushing forward and give him the fight that he has never had in his career. I doubt it. See this Saturday night marks a new beginning for me. Redefine couldn’t be a more fitting name of an event where I make my return to pro wrestling. This Saturday night, that is exactly what I’m going to do. This Saturday night, I will REDEFINE Ryan Kidd as you know him. I’ve been given another shot and I am not just gonna let it go to waste. I will prevail and I will return to the form I was back when I first started in this sport. And there’s no one that will ever to stop me from doing so. Not even Gabriel Blade.
So is it time to move on? Did I have taken this as far as it’ll go? Should I throw in the towel? Fuck no. I’m just getting started and I am here for a long time. And this Saturday night, I’ll be pushing it a little farther. Because I am literally in the fight of my life, fighting to protect something that I love to do and something that I will always be. And that is a professional wrestling and being a professional wrestler. So Gabriel Blade should bring all his submission holds. He should bring all of his technical moves. He can bring all of his wrestling pedigree and experience to Chicago. Because this fierce and fearless individual, the man they call Pro Wrestling’s Evil Knievel is bringing his all to this match.
I’ll see you all, Saturday night.
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